Annals of the six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet
Translation of the Annals of the Six Kings of England by that traces the rise and rule of the Angevin aka Plantagenet dynasty from the mid-12th to early 14th century. Written by the Dominican scholar Nicholas Trivet, the work offers a vivid account of English history from the reign of King Stephen through to the death of King Edward I, blending political narrative with moral reflection. Covering the reigns of six monarchs—from Stephen to Edward I—the chronicle explores royal authority, rebellion, war, and the shifting balance between crown, church, and nobility. Trivet provides detailed insight into defining moments such as baronial conflicts, Anglo-French rivalry, and the consolidation of royal power under Edward I, whose reign he describes with particular immediacy. The Annals combines careful year-by-year reporting with thoughtful interpretation, presenting history not merely as a sequence of events but as a moral and political lesson. Ideal for readers interested in medieval history, kingship, and the origins of the English state, this chronicle remains a valuable and accessible window into the turbulent world of the Plantagenet kings.
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In 1221 Bishop Eustace of Fauconberg was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1228 Bishop Walter Mauclerc was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1233 when he was expelled from office despite being granted the office for life.
On 27th August 1252 Philip Lovel was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1258.
On 3rd November 1258 John Crakehall was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 6th February 1270 Bishop John Chishull was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 9th June 1271.
On 18th June 1280 Abbot Richard of Ware was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In January 1284 Bishop John Kirkby was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In August 1290 Bishop William of March was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until August 1295.
In 1295 Bishop Walter Langton was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1307.
On 6th September 1296 Hugh de Cressingham was appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.
After 22nd August 1307 Archbishop Walter Reynolds was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 6th July 1310 John Sandale was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1311. Between 1312 and 1314 he was acting Lord Treasurer.
On 27th May 1317 Bishop John Hotham was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In November 1318 John Sandale was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until his death.
In 1320 Bishop Walter Stapledon [aged 58] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1322 Bishop Walter Stapledon [aged 60] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 26th November 1326 John de Straford [aged 51] was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 28th January 1327.
In 1327 Bishop Henry Burghesh [aged 35] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In January 1327 Bishop Adam Orleton was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until March 1327.
In 1330 Archbishop William Melton [aged 55] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1331 Bishop William Ayermin was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1334 Bishop Henry Burghesh [aged 42] was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1337.
In February 1334 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 47] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 2nd May 1341 Robert Sadington was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 21st June 1340.
In 1362 Robert Assheton was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
From 27th June 1369 to 1371 Bishop Thomas de Brantingham was appointed Lord High Treasurer to King Edward III of England [aged 56].
From 1377 to 1381 Bishop Thomas de Brantingham was appointed Lord High Treasurer to King Richard II of England [aged 9].
On 1st February 1381 Robert Hales [aged 56] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 10th August 1381 Hugh Segrave [aged 85] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1386 Bishop John Gilbert was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1389 Bishop Thomas de Brantingham was appointed Lord High Treasurer to King Richard II of England [aged 21].
Westminster Chronicle. After this, the king came to his manor of Sheen, where, on the 15th day of August [1389], having held a council, he released the Bishop of Exeter from the office of Treasurer, and took back Brother Gilbert, now Bishop of St Davids, as his Treasurer. And afterwards he held many councils in several places, namely at Windsor, Salisbury, and elsewhere, wherever he happened to turn.
Post hæc venit rex ad manerium suum de Shene ubi xv, die Augusti celebrato consilio episcopum Exoniensem ab officio thesaurariæ absolvit et fratrem Gilbertum jam episcopum Menevensem in suum thesaurarium reassumpsit. Et ex post in pluribus locis multa consilia celebravit, videlicet apud Wyndesoram, Sarum et alibi, ubi sibi contigerat declinare.
In 1398 William Scrope 1st Earl Wiltshire [aged 48] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1398 Bishop Guy Mone Aka Mohun was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Around 1402 William Ros 6th Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 32] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In February 1402 Archbishop Henry Bowet was appointed Lord High Treasurer seving until October.
In 1408 John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1422 Archbishop John Stafford was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1432 John Scrope 4th Baron Scrope of Masham [aged 44] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Around June 1433 Ralph Cromwell 3rd Baron Cromwell [aged 30] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1449 James Fiennes 1st Baron Saye and Sele [aged 54] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Around 1450 Thomas Browne [aged 48] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1452 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 24] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1454 James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde [aged 33] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 29th May 1455 Henry Bourchier 2nd Count of Eu 1st Earl Essex [aged 51] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Patent Rolls. 18th March 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. Grant, during the King's pleasure, to the King's kinsman Henry, Viscount Bourchier [aged 57], was appointed the office of treasurer of the Exchequer in the same manner as Walter Hungerford, knight, late treasurer.
On 24th June 1463 Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent [aged 46] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In March 1466 Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1468 John Howard [aged 43] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1468 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 40] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
After 26th July 1469 John Lanstrother was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 25th October 1469 Bishop William Grey was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In October 1470 John Lanstrother was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1484 John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet [aged 58] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1486 John Dynham 1st Baron Dynham [aged 53] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 16th June 1501 Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk [aged 58] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1509 George Hepburn Bishop Isles [aged 55] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
On 4th December 1522 Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 49] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 5th August 1553. And the Qwene [aged 37] grace mad ser Edward Hastyngs [aged 32] master of the horse, and ser Thomas Jernyngham [Note. Mistake for Henry made before.] vysse-chamburlayne and captayn of the gard, and master Rochastur [aged 59] master controller; my lord marqwes of Wynchaster [aged 70] lord tresorer of England, and dyvers odur offeserse, and dyvers odur.
In 1572 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley [aged 51] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1599 Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset [aged 63] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1618 Thomas Edmondes [aged 55] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1620 Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 57] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
Before November 1621 Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 46] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1643 Francis Cottington 1st Baron Cottington [aged 64] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
John Evelyn's Diary. 13th March 1661. I went to Lambeth, with Sir R. Browne's [aged 56] pretense to the Wardenship of Merton College, Oxford, to which, as having been about forty years before a student of that house, he was elected by the votes of every Fellow except one; but the statutes of the house being so that, unless every Fellow agree, the election devolves to the Visitor, who is the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Juxon [aged 79]), his Grace gave his nomination to Sir T. Clayton, resident there, and the Physic Professor: for which I was not at all displeased, because, though Sir Richard missed it by much ingratitude and wrong of the Archbishop (Clayton being no Fellow), yet it would have hindered Sir Richard from attending at Court to settle his greater concerns, and so have prejudiced me, though he was much inclined to have passed his time in a collegiate life, very unfit for him at that time, for many reasons. So I took leave of his Grace, who was formerly Lord High Treasurer in the reign of Charles I.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th June 1673. Congratulated the new Lord High Treasurer, Sir Thomas Osborne [aged 41], a gentleman with whom I had been intimately acquainted at Paris, and who was every day at my father-in-law's [aged 68] house and table there; on which account I was too confident of succeeding in his favor, as I had done in his predecessor's; but such a friend shall I never find, and I neglected my time, far from believing that my Lord Clifford [aged 42] would have so rashly laid down his staff, as he did, to the amazement of all the world, when it came to the test of his receiving the Communion, which I am confident he forbore more from some promise he had entered into to gratify the Duke, than from any prejudice to the Protestant religion, though I found him wavering a pretty while.
John Evelyn's Diary. 25th July 1673. I went to Tunbridge Wells, Kent [Map], to visit my Lord Clifford [aged 42], late Lord High Treasurer, who was there to divert his mind more than his body; it was believed that he had so engaged himself to the Duke [aged 39], that rather than take the Test, without which he was not capable of holding any office, he would resign that great and honorable station. This, I am confident, grieved him to the heart, and at last broke it; for, though he carried with him music, and people to divert him, and, when I came to see him, lodged me in his own apartment, and would not let me go from him, I found he was struggling in his mind; and being of a rough and ambitious nature, he could not long brook the necessity he had brought on himself, of submission to this conjuncture. Besides, he saw the Dutch war, which was made much by his advice, as well as the shutting up of the Exchequer, very unprosperous. These things his high spirit could not support. Having stayed here two or three days, I obtained leave of my Lord to return.
In September 1684 Sidney Godolphin 1st Earl Godolphin [aged 39] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd January 1687. A Seal to confirm a gift of £4,000 per annum for 99 years to the Lord Treasurer out of the Post Office, and £1,700 per annum for ever out of Lord Grey's [aged 31] estate.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd January 1687. There was now another change of the great officers. The Treasury was put into commission, two professed Papists among them, viz, Lords Bellasis [aged 72] and Dover [aged 51], joined with the old ones, Lord Godolphin [aged 41], Sir Stephen Fox [aged 59], and Sir John Ernley.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1689. Innumerable were the crowds, who solicited for, and expected offices; most of the old ones were turned out. Two or three white staves were disposed of some days before, as Lord Steward, to the Earl of Devonshire [aged 49]; Treasurer of the household, to Lord Newport; Lord Chamberlain to the King, to my Lord of Dorset [aged 46]; but there were as yet none in offices of the civil government save the Marquis of Halifax [aged 55] as Privy Seal. A council of thirty was chosen, Lord Derby [aged 34] president, but neither Chancellor nor Judges were yet declared, the new Great Seal not yet finished.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd May 1702. The report of the committee sent to examine the state of Greenwich Hospital [Map] was delivered to the House of Commons, much to their satisfaction. Lord Godolphin [aged 56] made Lord High Treasurer.
On 30th July 1714 Charles Talbot 1st Duke Shrewsbury [aged 54] was appointed Lord High Treasurer.
In 1770 Charles Townshend 1st Baron Bayning [aged 40] was appointed Lord of the Treasury which position he held until 1777.